STA 215: Statistical Inference

Course Schedule

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Some weeks will have lecture notes available; more will be added over time. Here's the course's information page and a sheet of information and notation for common probability distributions.

Week
Date
Topic
Reading
Assignment
Lec
Notes
HW
Due
Date
1
 1/13 Introduction: Likelihood, 3½ Paradigms C&B Chap 3
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 HW 1 1/20
2
1/18 - 1/20 Random Samples, Generating Functions C&B Chap 5
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3
1/25 - 1/27 Snow Days: Play Outside (Robustness)
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4
2/01 - 2/03 Point Estimation: Bias, Risk, Consistency Lec Notes »»
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 HW 2
2/10
5
2/08 - 2/10 Admissibility & Bayes, Efficiency & the Frêchet
(Cramér-Rao) Information Inequality		 Lec Notes »»
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6
2/15 - 2/17 Exponential Families, Sufficiency, Rao-Blackwell C&B §6.1
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7
2/22 - 2/24 Interval Estimation, Bayes & Frequentist C&B Chap 9
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 HW 3
3/7
8
2/29 - 3/02 Conditionality & the Likelihood Principle C&B §6.2
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9
3/07 - 3/09 Take-home Midterm Exam
Results
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2:15pm
3/09
10
3/10 - 3/20 Spring Break
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11
3/21 - 3/23 Testing Hypotheses: Size, P-Values, Power C&B Chap 8
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12
3/28 - 3/30 Posterior Prob, DeGroot, Berg.&Selke, Cass.&Berg. M&G §6.3
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13
4/04 - 4/06 Likelihood Ratios & Neyman-Pearson B&D Chap 6
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14
4/11 - 4/13 Example: Hierarchical Poisson Models
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15
4/18 - 4/20 Example, continued, plus practice final
notes
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16
4/22 - 4/30 Graduate Reading Period
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17
5/03 Final Exam, Wed May 3, 7:00-10:00pm
Results
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